I spent the afternoon in the paintshop. 3 layers of Orange and 5 layers of clear. Too early to say if it is good or not but at least it is ORANGE!When puting on the orange I realised that I actualy does not have enough light. Some of the areas are paintet without actually seeing the details.One good thing was the plastic coversheets. These are static charged and actually draws the spray dust.

With 3 kids, bussy jobb and 3 other projects waiting I have no time to hang arround. Spring is almost here so I need to keep going.

In the daylight I got the opportunity to inspect the paint job. The base color is realy good, but I was too eager with the clear. 4 realy bad cases of running paint. Needs to be sanded down one way or another. Hopefully I dont have to put on another coat of clear. Part from that the paint is realy good. I will give myself 6 out of 10 for the job.

Over the weekend I will assemble the car and put it outside so I can fix my oldest sons brakepipes.

The stuff on the ground should definetly be in a glas, not on the ground

Has put the car togheter and roled it outside. The paint is not as good as i thought so I have to do a lot of wet sanding. I have 5 layers of clear so it should be ok in the end.

Tried to fire the car up, but a lot of smoke came out of the dash. Fried at least one lead. I will have to do a new harness at some stage. Main objective now is to get it ready for MOT before Easter.

Some pics:

Question:I will either make a new rollbar or have the one I have modified to race standard. Does anyone know if there is a roll bar that fits of the shelf? I saw a pic of an S4 with a Safety Device rollbar, but it is not listed on their homepage. Any caterham model which fit?

Unfortunately it did not pass its MOT, I got 1(!) fault and that was the handbrake not beeing firm enough. Since it is now a diskbrake setup, I have to look over how i did the wires one more time. Should be easy stuff, and the car is comming together nicely.

One thing that puzzles me is that the car has quite good ground clerance. It is actually much higher than my Porsche. Might want to lower the car some day...

Interesting. I remember the posts that went back and forth about the change of the front wings. You can see the "ghosts" hanging around on the side of the car body. Does that stay or do you have a plan to blend the lines out in some way?

Also, do you have a grand plan for a new grille on the front of the car?

The "ghost" will stay. I have seen some cars which have blended them in, but I think it is too much work. Besides, it makes the conversion ireversible. I like to keep it simple. I have also seen some which has highlighted the edge, but I didnt like that either. So for now I just keep it like that.

I have painted the the original grille same colour as the wheels and will put that in as a starter. I also have some other options if it doesnt work out.

Car is now on the road and working realy well. The sound of the xflow is realy nice with lot of pufs and bangs when you let go of the throtle

There is still a lot of work to do, including wide track, coilovers, rollbar, and engine. Still not decided on BEC or zetec. I won't update this thread on a regular basis anymore since there seems to be little interest in the S4.